The Visiting Teaching Message for January is about self-reliance. Since January is also the month of resolutions, I made a little goal planner intended to help us think about the ways in which we can improve our self-reliance. The nice thing about the size of this little planner is that it fits into a pocket or a purse so nicely, which makes it easy to take out and ponder from time to time.
The planner is made from one sheet of folded paper. No glue or adhesive is required.
Begin by folding the paper in half the long way, and making a sharp crease. (The vertical creases you see in the photo are coming up.)
Open the paper flat, then fold the paper with the short sides meeting.
Then take one layer of paper, flip the edge back to meet the fold, and crease.
Turn the paper over, flip the edge of the paper back to meet the fold, and crease.
Your paper now looks like this.
Place the paper on the table so that you see a W when you look at the end.
Cut the center of the W along the center fold. You'll be cutting through two layers of paper and stopping at the cross fold (This is marked with a dotted line on my downloaded file.)
Hold the center point of the W together on both sides so the cut middle section falls open. Let the backs of the planner pages meet each other. You will have an open book with 4 double-sided pages at this point.
Find the front page of the planner, and bring the remaining three sections to the back, so you have a flat book.
Crease everything down, and you have a nice little book to jot down a few ideas for becoming more self-reliant in all the areas mentioned in the visiting teaching message. (I make blank books like these all the time for my kids to draw in - they are lots of fun!)You can download the file for the self-reliance planner here.
Idea taken from http://www.visitingteachingblog.blogspot.com/
